[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug #7787: Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and Alexa are not recognized in TypoScript robot condition

Oliver Hader oliver at typo3.org
Sat Mar 8 12:26:47 CET 2008


Hi Steffen,

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> "Oliver Hader" <oliver at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:mailman.1.1204974421.13424.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
>> Solution:
>> Add parts of the user agent string of the HTTP header to recognize them
>> correctly:
>> * Yahoo -> slurp
>> * MSN -> msnbot
>> * Ask.com -> teoma
>> * Alexa -> ia_archiver
> 
> +1 by reading. In general i would like to have such data outsourced from 
> code, having txtfiles eg for easy maintanance, But for 4.2 this should be 
> left as it is.

I checked for user agent strings on http://www.user-agents.org/ and had 
a similar feeling. Currently we only have some of the famous 
robots/crawlers but there are still many others out there. I don't say 
that we need all of them, but just some more.

olly
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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Core Team


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